Something has happened to Peach. Blood runs down her legs, and the smell of burnt flesh clings to her skin. Walking hurts, but she staggers home to her parents, who don’t notice anything. The two of them can’t keep their hands off each other anyway and have a new sweet baby. Peach has to piece herself back together to go to school and meet her friend Grün. But it’s impossible to find sleep when haunted by the image of a wide-open mouth, impossible to work when charred sausage fat fills the nose, and impossible to eat when the stomach is tightly swollen. Peach begins to understand the cruel things she must do to cope. In her brilliant debut novel, Emma Glass expresses the unspeakable with breathtaking clarity and verve. Intensely physical, sensual, rhythmic.